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Overwatch is a team-based multiplayer first-person shooter video game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment. It was released in May 2016 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. Players on a team work together to secure and defend control points on a map.

Problems in the last 24 hours

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Overwatch Outage Chart 02/28/2026 14:20

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Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Overwatch users through our website.

  1. Sign in (47%)

    Sign in (47%)

  2. Online Play (23%)

    Online Play (23%)

  3. Game Crash (12%)

    Game Crash (12%)

  4. Glitches (10%)

    Glitches (10%)

  5. Matchmaking (8%)

    Matchmaking (8%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Overwatch outage reports came from the following cities:

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City Problem Type Report Time
AustraliaBrisbane Game Crash
United StatesOshkosh Online Play
MexicoCórdoba Matchmaking
United StatesMoorhead Glitches
MexicoChihuahua Online Play
BrazilCampos dos Goytacazes Sign in
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Overwatch Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • RussellLatshaw RTL3 (@RussellLatshaw) reported

    Overwatch team high-fiving they boosted Pharah's diversity points by 10% and there's totally no problem at any point in this situation.

  • zoppletee Zoppletee (@zoppletee) reported

    @LotusOfDoom @Cryptic_Moogle I actually was on a team and overwatch and was kicked for being "toxic" since it didn't have a coach and I would genuinely question the leader to see if they understood why certain comps worked and offered ways to fix what we ran. Really really made me not happy.

  • WajeehAlawfi wajeeh Alawfi (@WajeehAlawfi) reported

    @RL_Support Hi rocketLeague i have problem when im playing a game my ping go up to 800-900 and I don’t have any problems in my internet then i go to play overwatch there’s no problem form the ping doesn’t go up My ID in PS4: heema222 My ID in Epic Games: Atomica-YT

  • ComradeBoostio ComradeXs (@ComradeBoostio) reported

    @kayjii bc mercy definitely took enough skill and wasn’t broken enough in overwatch 1…

  • roswellwrites ben roswell 👽👬 (@roswellwrites) reported

    Overwatch diversity tracker literally doesn't even have a column for trans or nonbinary on its data. The data is 100% percent broken down into man or woman, to have a nonbinary character you'd have to break their system. Which means its not a good system.

  • ThePunishingCat ThePunishingCat (@ThePunishingCat) reported

    @PlayOverwatch @Blizzard_Ent I had a 3 person ultimate and someone with 1 kill got play of the game. FIX YOUR GAME!!!! #Overwatch

  • BandiiBean BandiiBean (@BandiiBean) reported

    I have run into a problem when I stream Overwatch & use animaze/facerig. I have a good PC, but for some reason it will totally freeze my PC and I have to force shut it off. It only happens when streaming Overwatch.

  • SignalesPas Wissam 🏴‍☠️ (@SignalesPas) reported

    What's the problem w overwatch I can't join a game????

  • odowska_s Słodowska curie Maria (@odowska_s) reported

    @AquamarineOW no, we here in overwatch dev team, we like thing simple, so we want to male every her broken so game can become CS for one simple reason, we don't care

  • TheIrishTrish Trisha Ryan (@TheIrishTrish) reported

    @Kir31na @skiesti_ At no point have I said anything to back up this narrative you're trying to create. I have said, and only said, that letting flaming get to you in Overwatch is a personal problem. The irony that you're trying to claim that I can't read. This is why you come off as high.

  • SpectreBull Ty Richardson (@SpectreBull) reported

    @JezCorden Not sure how you face an identity crisis when you're repackaging the previous game with one new hero and shifting the lighting of pre-existing levels. Seriously, how has Overwatch not turned into a free-to-play live service?

  • BigBrainGamer Tristan (@BigBrainGamer) reported

    Give me 3 youtube videos of my choice about video game programming and the rights to the game and I’ll fix overwatch single handily

  • updownbanana Potassium | bIm (@updownbanana) reported

    also this isn't specifically limited to overwatch since those characters were designed long before this tool existed and the tool developers were just using them as examples, it's more of a problem with actiblizz as a whole

  • kelpisnotreal kelp (@kelpisnotreal) reported

    @strawberrana @OWAnonymous_ If that is the point Im sure naming it what anon said instead of deluxe edition or Chapter 2 would bring more problems. The best option should’ve been Chapter 2 sorta like fortnite but blizzard being blizzard just wanted to make it overwatch 2 instead of chapter 2.

  • Spoopy_Raven Spooky Raven (@Spoopy_Raven) reported

    I spent a week pissed that overwatch VC was broken only to find out i had mute game voice chat on

  • ShimadaMamii *****⁷ with the hanzo tattoo (@ShimadaMamii) reported

    See, the problem with Overwatch not bothering developing the lore for some of its characters is that people start relying too much on fanon content and forget some bits of the actual canon facts.

  • HandsomeSquid0 Handsome Squidward (@HandsomeSquid0) reported

    @LliamSwick @Gale_Adelade People were super hyped when it dropped because it was an opportunity to see what the future of Overwatch looks like. Issue is, not much changed from OW1 to 2. We shouldn't settle for mediocrity from Blizz at this point imo and what we've seen so far looks really mediocre.

  • camrokks Camrokks (@camrokks) reported

    After some not so nice Overwatch games full of smurfs, I can sorrowfully say I wish my phone wasn't broken.

  • WajeehAlawfi wajeeh Alawfi (@WajeehAlawfi) reported

    @RocketLeague Hi rocketLeague i have problem when im playing a game my ping go up to 800-900 and I don’t have any problems in my internet then i go to play overwatch there’s no problem form the ping doesn’t go up My ID in PS4: heema222 My ID in Epic Games: Atomica-YT

  • TheIvanhobe Ivanhobe (@TheIvanhobe) reported

    @puritikuma Never been into Overwatch, or any competitive multiplayer (I have no friends), but it still amazes me how this whole franchise seemed to crash an burn completely in like, a year.

  • firepix515 FirePix 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈| BLM (@firepix515) reported

    @IGN This was an issue they literally solved before 2016 before creating Casual Mode as a way to inconvenience players just because they wanted to copy Overwatch When they somehow didn't figure out that nobody ******* liked Overwatch's matchmaking system either

  • SmokeKaon Joey (@SmokeKaon) reported

    @OWAnonymous_ That's not the issue. People came back, thinking Overwatch 2 would be a brand new game, and people noticed Overwatch 2 was just an update of Overwatch 1. It doesn't matter if that's free to play or not. That's just pretty much the same game.

  • KampferWolf Kampfer (@KampferWolf) reported

    @TransSalamander Its also possible that overwatch came out as a response to the fact that so far in the history of basically all of blizzard that diversity was a major issue. The fact that this whole character maker thing exists is a good example of how they still likely default to cis white man

  • Taccm7 Taccm 🇺🇦 (@Taccm7) reported

    @megabrenn @Flats_OW My issue is having people who can ONLY play mercy and can't flex onto other main supports(lucio or zen). It really hurts the overall overwatch experience when you have a character with such a low skill floor in the same game as widow or ball.

  • omnixero Lou Dawg (@omnixero) reported

    @chunkz1871 @bowzer187 @OfficialXboxU I bought both like a month apart. Have the OG PS5 and all I play on it is Overwatch after finishing Mikes up until R&C came out. Thats the thing I diversified games among the consoles to circumvent storage issues especially when PS5 didn't have any options for a whole year

  • Vaellir Vaellir 🇺🇦 (@Vaellir) reported

    @FunWithTreason @Wowhead Not diverse at all cost, just "naturally diverse", I mean in Overwatch universe it is not as big of a deal, not an obstacle. You have a literal Gorilla character, robots and such, so diverse Human chars, without tokenizing them, should not be a problem.

  • VexxExists Vexx Exists (@VexxExists) reported

    So Condemned's frame rates were awful, DBD failed to launch, Overwatch was being laggy and wasn't a horror game & the stream raid started before I could say thanks - wouldn't be one of my streams if there weren't 101 tech issues 😩 sorry! But thank you to everyone who hung out 💛

  • kaansavukduran Kaan Savukduran (@kaansavukduran) reported

    @PlayOverwatch @Stylosa Man. It's been 6 years since Overwatch came out. We still see Mirror Match when playing Overwatch. You haven't completed the game properly in 6 years. On top of that, you add 2-3 things to the same game and try to sell it as Overwatch 2. What's your problem guys?

  • OWAnonymous_ Overwatch Anonymous (@OWAnonymous_) reported

    Overwatch 2 failed/will fail outside of the overwatch space because it was named overwatch 2, if it was called something like Overwatch: Retribution for example, people wont expect a whole overhaul of OW the game, and have a problem with the PVP beta being very similar

  • Daisy_Blades 🌼Daisy (@Daisy_Blades) reported

    @overwatch please don't touch super jump. It's perfectly fine the way it is ;-; maybe fix her buggy rez tho. have a nice day